MLB '24 Postseason thread

I'm afraid public opinion has shifted on daytime postseason baseball. There's an entire generation now that doesn't associate that with any feelings of nostalgia. I'm seeing it on social media.

 

This Mets run was so much fun. I think I’ve had more Mets joy in the past 5 weeks than I’ve had in the past 5 years. Dodgers are a great team and absolutely relentless. The Mets have an owner who will spend to win and what appears to be an excellent front office. I’ll take it.

 

It’s true!

MLB Makes Change to All-Star Game Uniforms That Fans Had Been Begging For

 

To all you Dodger haters here, ha ha ha.

I get to fanboi. Time to win a full-season title and shut everyone up.

 

Last time my dad and I watched the Yankees and Dodgers in the World Series was 1981. I was 10.

 

The Dodgers infield was still Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey, although all were at least 32 by then. Fernando Valenzuela was 20. Dave Winfield had signed a record-breaking 10-year, $21 million deal with the Yankees. And the whole season was weird because of the mid-season strike.

 

I still think Valenzela was at least two years older (and perhaps more) than what his "birth certificate" shows. But Fernando-mania was alive and well that season.

 

1981 was a year of postseason comebacks for the Dodgers. They were down 2-0 to Houston in the first round, which was necessitated by the strike, down 2-1 to Montreal before Blue Monday and down 2-0 to the Yankees before winning four in a row.

 

Fuck Rick Monday!!!

 

Ah, 1981. I was a rookie baseball writer for the Santa Monica Evening Outlook, covering the Dodgers. What a ride, from Vero Beach to Yankee Stadium. I have a ton of memories that will probably be brought up as this week unfolds.
Fernando-mania, labor dispute that took away a third of the season, local boy Rick Monday from Santa Monica High beats the Expos, the infielders in their final season together, and on and on.

 

Reggie Jackson taking a flyball in the chest, and reliever George Frazier taking three losses.